History
1766 – 2017
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Annual turnover at Tattersalls tops 300 million guineas for the first time, with a record 331 million guineas worth of bloodstock sold.
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Dispersal of Ballymacoll Stud concludes.
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Marsha Sells for European Record 6,000,000 Guineas at Tattersalls December Mare Sale
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Turnover at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale tops 100m guineas.
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Tattersalls celebrates its 250th Year Anniversary.
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Tattersalls launches the £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus to replace the Tattersalls Millions race series.
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Tattersalls buys Brightwells Bloodstock Sales which hold auctions at Cheltenham and Ascot racecourses.
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Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Just The Judge sells for 4.5 million guineas; the highest price for a filly at auction in British auction history.
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Tattersalls takes a majority stake in French sales company Osarus.
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Immortal Verse set a European record for a broodmare when selling for 4.7m guineas at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale.
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Dancing Rain becomes the first Oaks winner to be sold at public auction carrying her first foal in over 50 years. She sells for 4 million guineas.
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A Galileo filly out of Alluring Park sets a new world record for a yearling when selling to Al Shaqab Racing for 5,000,000 guineas..
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Tattersalls takes a 20% stake in leading Australian auction house William Inglis & Son Limited.
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Tattersalls creates the Tattersalls Millions Race series worth £2.3m. Turnover hits 244 million guineas.
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Annual turnover at Tattersalls tops 200 million guineas for the first time, with a record 233 million guineas worth of bloodstock sold.
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Magical Romance sells for a world record price for a broodmare of 4,600,000 guineas on the second day of the December Mare Sale which turned over just short of 30 million guineas; the highest grossing day in European auction history.
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A colt by Sadler’s Wells out of Darara sells for 3.4m guineas; a European record for a yearling.
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Michael Watt is succeeded as Chairman by Edmond Mahony but remains on the Board until his retirement in 1996, after 50 years with the company.
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Tattersalls introduces the Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale.
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Tattersalls increases its holding in Ballsbridge Sales and the operation becomesa wholly owned subsidiary called Tattersalls (Ireland).
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Kenneth Watt retires as Chairman and is replaced by his cousin Michael Watt.
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Tattersalls buys a 44% stake in Irish company Ballsbridge International Bloodstock Sales.
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Vaguely Noble sold for 136,000 guineas, a world record for a horse in training.
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New sale ring completed at Park Paddocks, Newmarket.
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Tattersalls move yearling sales from Doncaster to Newmarket.
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Last Tattersalls yearling sales at Doncaster. Tattersalls offices re-established in modern block on site of old offices at Knightsbridge Green.
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Tattersalls sales at Doncaster resume.
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Knightsbridge Green site sold.
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September Sales: Future St Leger winner Sayajirao sold for record 28,000 guineas.
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No July Sale or Doncaster Sales.
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Last Sales held by Tattersalls at Knightsbridge Green.
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July Sales attended by King George V.
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Tattersalls sales at Doncaster: Mumtaz Mahal sold to Aga Khan for top price of 9,100 gns.
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Tattersalls sales at Doncaster: New worldrecord price for yearling Blue Ensign(The Tetrarch – Blue Tit), bred by Sledmere Stud and sold to Lord Glanely for 14,500 guineas.
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First December Sales held at Park Paddocks, Newmarket.
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Tattersalls takes lease of Glasgow Paddocks, Doncaster, for sales previously held outside Salutation Inn, Doncaster.
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Tattersalls Sales move from Hyde Park Corner to new site at Knightsbridge Green.
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Richard Tattersall establishes Tattersalls Sales at Hyde Park Corner.